The floating knee: a review on ipsilateral femoral and tibial fractures

[摘要] In 1975, Blake and McBryde1 established the concept of the ’floating knee’ to describe homolateral fractures of the femur and tibia, where the knee is disconnected from the rest of the limb. Type I (71%) constitutes the true ‘floating knee’ in which neither the femoral nor the tibia fracture extends to the knee, instep or hip. Type II (29%) is a variant in which one or both fractures involve the knee.

[学科分类] 神经科学

[关键词] floating knee;femur fracture;tibia fracture;epidemiology;nailing;plating